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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26
WONDERS or THE SEA.


M Great Depth, Dssspeavo Wsveu -
Power ~ 9vaporassen.
The sea occupies three-fifths Of the
surface OF the earth At the depth Of
about $500 feet waves are not felt
The temperature is the same, varying
only trifs from the ice of the pole to
the sun Of the equator. A mile down
the water has pressure Of over ton
to the square inch. II box of six feet
deep was filed with sea water and al
lowed to evaporate under the sun,
there would two inches of salt left ON
the bottom. Taking the average depth
OF the ocean to be three miles, there
would be layer of pure salt $50 feet
thick on the bed of the Atlantic. The
water IL colder at the bottom than 1t
the surface. In the many bays on the
coast of Norway the water often freezes
at the bottom before it does above.
Waves are very deceptive. To look
at them in storm one would think the
water travelled. The water stays in the
same place but tho motion goes on.
Sometimes in storms these waves are
forty feet high and travel fifty miles an
hour more than twice as fast as the
swiftest steamer. The distance from
valley to valley is generally fifteen
times the height, hence a wave five feet
high win extend over seventy-five feet
OF water. The force of the dashing on
Bell Rock Is said to be seventeen tons
for each square yard. Evaporation is
awonderful power in drawing the water
from the sea Every year layer of the
entire sea fourteen feet thick Is taken
up into the clouds
The winds bear their burden into the
land, and the water comes down in rain
upon the fields. to flow back at last
through Rivera The depth ef the sea
presents an interesting problem. II
the Atlantic was lowered 1854 feet,
the distance from shore to shore would
be half as great, or 1900 miles. II
lowered little moro than three miles.
say 1859 feet, there would be road
Of dry land from Newfoundland to Ire
land. This is the plane on which the
great Atlantic cables were laid. The
Mediterranean is comparatively shall
low. The drying mp of $50 feet would
leave three different seas. and Africa
would be joined with Italy. The British
Channel is more like pond. which &C
counts for its choppy waves.
1t has been found difficult to get the
correct sounding Of the Atlantic. A
midshipman Of the navy overcame the
difficulty. and shot weighing thirty
pounds carries down the line. A hole
is bored through the sinker, through
which . rod Of iron is passed, moving
easily back and forth. In the end of the
bar cpp is dug. and the inside coated
with lard. The bar is made fast to the
line, and sling holds the shot on.
When the bar, which extends below the
ball, touches the earth, the sling I'M
hooks and the shot slides of. The lard
in the end Of the bar holds some of the
sand, or whatever may be on the bot
tom. and drop shuts over the cup to
keep the water from washing the sand
out When the ground is reached q
shock is felt as If an electric current
had passed through the line Ocean
Wdve.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26

L. experienced BY some fdgety people Oh
servant Of unusual paleness In their ccunte-
region Of the stomach or liver, or who pass
q restless night or two These are small
ailments, capable, indeed, Of aggravation by
neglect, but easily removable ct the start BY
the fine assistant Of digestion, assimilation
and sleep, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Use
this pure remedy, 20 admirably ADAPTED 70
family emergencies. Malaria and kidney
complaints are relieved by it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26

OLD pill boxes are spread over the land by
suffering humanity. What mass Of sick
ening, disgusting medicine the poor stomach
has to contend with Too much strong mcdi-
cine. Priclly Ash Bitters b rapidly and
surely taking the place of Al this class Of
drugs, and In curing all the us arising from
. disordered condition Of the liver, kidneys,
stomach and bowels.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26

MATCHMAKING mammas going away for
the summer months naturally took their
daughters to the Grand Un1on-Harpsr's
R0x0v.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26

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wins It BY superior skill, or by an unex-
pected turn Of Fortunes Wheel 4 tobe CON
graduated. But he who escapes from the
clutches Of that dread monster, Consump-
ton, and wins back health and happiness, Il
ming 100000 are small, but every consump-
tive may be absolutely sure Of recovery, II
he takes DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery in time. For Al scrofulous diseases
Consumption - one Of them), It h IN un-
failing remedy. All druggists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-11-26

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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
SPARRING EXHIBITIONS.

There has been an astounding increase in
the number of glove fights recently, both
in the more brutal affairs in which one or
the other of the contestants is pounded into
a condition of insensibility and in the less
reprehensible exhibitions in which science
and not brutality is the main feature. While,
generally speaking. exhibitions of this char
acter do not deserve encouragement and in
many instances should be firmly suppressed.
it must be admitted that the influence of
sparring exhibitions is not wholly bad.
Prize fighting should, of course, be
severely frowned upon and its pro-
motors punished by law, but the purely
scientific demonstrations of the art of self
defense are not without benefit. That they
develops taste for sparring and lead many,
who would otherwise ignore it, to acquire
the accomplishment is undoubted. but that
is really far from being matter of regret
The possession of the knowledge that one
can ''handle his fists" in way to insure
self-protection in case of emergency,
creates a feeling of independence that is
certainly very satisfactory. Not only that,
but the general diffusion of such knowledge
is a direct incentive to the maintenance of
law and order and to the decrease
of crime. With the feeling of Sc
curity which an expert sparrer has
there is less inclination to depend upon al
tifciai means Of protection. and in conse-
,quence such a one is rarely victim of the
pernicious pistol carrying habit which has
resulted fatally in so many instances. With
the knowle lge Of his power the sparrer is
apt to be slow to wrath, and even if, hot
tempered, he exerts it, the result is not
likely to be very serious. The carrying of
concealed weapons is in many communities
in the West very general. The evil effects of
it are too often seen. If, then, the sparring
exhibitions, through their tendency to in
duce men to depend upon Natures
weapons as means of defense, cause a
diminution of the evil custom, it must be
acknowledged that their influence has some
thing of good in it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
called upon. The gospel of exercise should
claim more believers.
COMING TO THEIR SENSES.

The anarchists are undoubtedly coming
to their senses. The result of the convic-
ton of the Chicago gang is bearing good
fruit even in Chicago. 1t was proposed to
make the burial of Mrs. NEEBE. the wife
of one of the convicts, the occasion for q
grand socialistic demonstration. There
were peculiar circumstances associated
with the poor woman's death which would
have contributed to the appropriateness of
the demonstration. She was a devoted
wife. VIII clung to her husbands fortunes
with loyalty that excited the admiration
of all the world. The result of the trial In
the conviction of the man upon whom she
had showered her wifely devotion was too
great shock for her delicate constitution,
and the fragile woman sank into the grave
under it. Some of the socialistc
leaders proposed to take advantantage
of the public sympathy which the
distressing circumstances of her death had
awakened to make her funeral the occasio II
of a socialiStic demonstration, with the eX-
pectatOn of STRENGTHENING the cause of
socialism. But at the last moment the
idea was abandoned and yesterday Mrs.
NEEBE was quietly laid tolest 1t is evil
dent that the socialists realized that public
sympathy cannot be aroused in this country
to the extent of favoring lawlessness. They
furthermore realized that in public judg
ment she was not the victim of legal OPP
preston, but that her life was sacrificed by
the misguided conduct of her conSpirator
husband. If he had remained law-abld-
ing citizen his wife would not have fallen
into premature grave. 1t was socialism
that killed her and any socialistic demon
stration at her funeral would have been
the groSSeSt mockery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
will con,inue 20 Nngw ump.

N"'"NN"" Argus tneD.)
Ihere was birth at st, Paul last week to
which the papers give a merited prominence.
me iusty infant Is called 1.-THE Young Re-
puplican Club OF Minnesota" 1t draws the
INSPIRATION OF It's organism from the political
principle or Senator Davis ''yote for the
ueVli II on your ticket and scratch the apos-
Tic Paul u ne Is on the other" Every mem
per is soiemnly pledged to vote the straight
licKet IRON president down." There was
some kicking against this requirement. but
representative Stratton said that 1--WE want
no mugwumps In Minnesota" and the boys,
scared az the mere mention of the word, has
tily yielded The organization secures at
least one thing to the Republican
party. it may not be much, but it is
something, there will be couple hundred
stralght votes in the state in S6.
but 1t VIII remain one of the unpleasant and
uncomfortable facts which plague the plans
or politicians that Notwithstanding the dicta
OF this club, and in spite OF its heartfelt wish,
there VIII continue to be "Mugwumps in Min
nesota. AS the mugwumps are Republicans
zion have so little regard for the opinion OF
these old young Republicans that they will
continue to mugwump when they think it is
necessary, and as mugwumpery is a con-
tagious disease, very catching and sure to
spread, this declaration of the club is simply
tantamount to saying that it is desirable to di-
minish the Republican majority. We must
admit that tue club bids fair TO accomplish
this end. If to be Republican one must
vote the straight ticket from president
down." the club will find that it has read out
of the party in this state at least hale of its
members
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
Roasted to q Burn.

Rochester Post and Union.
The Minnesota legislature has passed away
since our last issue. We wish that we could
say that it was dead and buried. We are glad,
however, to record the fact that though not
dead, 1t sleeps, and rests for while from its
labors. If it could only sleep on for half
century or so IL would be all the better for
the state. Mayhap the fools would be gone
h. that time, What little we have to say of
record can be summed up in few words.
IL mas piodded on through the days and the
weeks of the session in its own stupid way,
and while honest, well-ntentioned men have
tried to do something for the honor OF
the state and the welfare of the people,
the great difficulty seems to have been
lack of brains. The consequence has
been that, with constancy that amounts to
fatality,it has done that which it ought not to
have done, and left undone that what was
clearly its duty to DO. While as legislative
body they have been most signal failure, as
a circus it was an undOubted success. The
antics of the clowns in their efforts to gal
vanize the corpse of the Republican party,
which has been dead in this state ever since
the fall elections. were not the least amusing
part Of the show. The awkward attempt of
the politicians to secure the support of the
temperance men by the high license law, and
of the farmers by the most crude efforts at
railroad legislation, was most exquisite
piece of acting, only perhaps too broad in its
character to suit the refined taste Of the
lovers of genuine comedy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
SAD NEGLIGENCE.

The sad news to the effect that Secretary
MANNING is suffering from softening of the
brain and is failing rapidly, calls attention
again with emphasis to fact that was adj
verted to in these columns in connection
with the death of Gen. LOGAN, namely,
that American public men are guilty of the
most culpable negligence in the non-preser-
walton of their physical and mental powers.
Through the obviously easy means of syste-
matte exercise and frequent rest the human
machine can be maintained in excellent
order for at least the allotted score of mans
life. but there has always been among
American public men, except in a few iso-
lated instances, the most reckless disregard
of that fact There was no inherent reason
why Secretary MANNING should not have
retained his vigor of body and mind to a
green old age, had he properly taken
care of himself. He is yet a
comparatively young man, and should in
the natural course of things have many
years of usefulness in store for him. He
has simply squandered his strength through
an entire disregard for the simplest rules OF
hygienic economy, and is now paying the
penalty. All his life he has been a cease.
less worker, and has applied himself with
out rest or relaxation to tasks of the most
eXacting kind. Without either exercise OIL
vacation he has allowed himself to be abb
sorbed by business cares of a most
wearing character. There has been
no let-up, no stoppage for repairing
or oiling the machine, but a cease.
less and continued grind. The result is
the natural one. The maximum of strain /:
reached and the machine breaks down
There is a growing disposition in schools
and colleges of the present day to impress:
upon students the importance of intelligent
gymnasium exercise, and it is to be hoped
that, however neglectful the present ma,
be. the next generation of business mel
and public men will, through that influence
learn to place the proper value upon recrea
ton and exercise as a means of preserving
the vital powers unimpaired through thu
term of years during which they ough
naturally to be expected to respond whe1
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
M1NNEsoTA MUGwUM Ps.

Editor SMALLEY, of the Caledonia Argus
who is the eveiest-headed Republican
leader in the state. takes to task that i'll
fantile and exceedingly fresh organization
known as The Young Mems Republican
Club of Minnesota" and reads it lecture
through the columns of his paper which
the members will do we'll to lay to heart
The purpose of the club to throw the offices
into the hands of young politicians is clearly
defined in the provision which excludes Re-
publicans over fifty years of age from men,
bership. 1t is equivalent to serving notice
on the veterans that they are to stand back
and let the boys lick the platter. But that
feature does not disturb the Caledonia ed
itor so much as the declaration that Mug
wumpS are not wanted in the organization.
The club seems to have been organized on
tie principle enunciated by Senator DAVIS
last fall, of voting for the devil if he is on
the Republican ticket. and scratching the
Apostle PAUL if he is on the other. Every
member is solemnly pledged to vote the
straight ticket, from president down. The
Argus saws that this declaration is tanta-
mount 20 saying that it is desirable to dimin-
ish the Republican majority in Minnesota.
1t reminds the youthful partisans who are
organizing to obtain control Of the Repub-
lican party in Minnesota that the Mug
wumps are all Republicans and are men
who helped to build up the Repubublican
party When they are excluded from the
party it takes away big slice OF the Re-
publican vote. We were not prepared for
the statement made by our Caledonia con-
temporary that at least one-half of the Re-
pubicanS in this state vote scratched tick
cts. but we are none the less gratifed to
hear it, OF course 1.-The Young Republi-
can Club of Minnesota proposes to read
these ticket scratcherS out of the party,
unless they submit to surrender their polit-
ical independence into the hands of the
youthful bosses. But that is just what
Editor SMAILEY says they will not do.
He says that Mugwumpery is very con-
tagious disease and spreads like fire an adry
prairie when the bosses get to cracking the
party whip. We wish that we could concur
with our Caledonia friend in this opinion.
1t is true that there is a good deal of Mug
wumpery in this state, but the way that the
Republicans were whipped into traces by
the bosses in the last state election does not
encourage the belief that Mugwumpery has
time, if the brainy young Republicans OF
Editor SMALLEY's type will keep pegging
away. they will drive these old young
Republicans into hole from which they
cannot be eXtricated. ~..-ss.,.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
RELIGIOUs EXpANsIoN.

The tribute paid by the Jews of st. Paul
to the memory of the late HENRY WARD
BEEcHER is not only a,beautiful illustration
of the harmonizing influences Of religion, but
it is likewise forcible illustration of the
disposition of mankind to recognize the
respect due to intellectual greatness and
moral worth. Mr.. BEECHER's own liber-
ality and charity never had a more lovely
eXemplification than in his sermon eulOgistic
of the late MOSES MoNTEF lore, the noted
Jewish philanthropist. These examples of
tolerance are not as frequent as they ought
to be in country which is emphatically
nation Of religious freedom, but that they
are sometimes presented, and that, too, in
conspicuous places, gives encouragement to
the belief that the good time coming spoken
of in holy writ is not very far off, when
every man shall sit under his own vine and
fig tree, and worship GOD according to the
dictates of conscience, with none to ques-
ton his opinions to modest his belief or to
make him afraid. Religion has made great
progress when heterodoxy is no longer
badgepf religious dishonor or of social
degradation. Religious teachers of all sects
and creeds are being more and more i'm
pressed with the idea that the universe is
GODS grand temple, in which men can
approach the divine altar and offer up their
sacrifices acceptably without being COM
PEELED to follow the rigid rules laid down
by fallible synods and councils. Men
themselves are more and more finding con-
ISOLATION in the belief that the great God
who created the universe can somewhere
in his creation find spot fit for the eter-
nal dwelling place Of each soul that he has
created. The tendency of modern religious
thought is Enthusiastically toward the uni
versal brotherhood of mankind. 1t matters
not who teaches this doctrine. Mankind,
without respect to sect OF creed, is dis
posed to pay homage to the teacher. If
men are to be judged in the hereafter ac-
cording to the deeds done in the body,
then, with the possible exception of some
Chicago preacher, there is not Christian
minister or Jewish rabbi who would dare
to assert that MOSES MoNTEFIoRE and
HENRY WARD BEEcHER have not already
clasped hands in that world where Jew
and Gentle meet in common brotherhood.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14

tights.
If there are any anarchists in st. Paul.
Whether it was Dick O'Connor. Tom Prem
dergast, Basil Armstrong or Chief Clark who
concocted that anarchist yarn.
How Col. German feels since he was pro-
NOTED to the presidency OF the board of pub
liz works.
If the Metropolitan hotel will ever be occu-
pied or utilized.
If there is any luminosity existing between
Frank Washabaugh and E. G. Smith, of the
Dakota legislature.
Why Frank Aikens and Sergeant-at-A Arms
Troy are opposed to Gov. Church.
Why Melvin Grigsby, the member of the
Dakota legislature from Sioux Falls, feels so
sore?
Why Mentzer. the Dakota solon from Davi-
son county, doesn't like to go home.
What John Mcdonald, of the Milwaukee
road, would have done at Bismarck without
Clough, of the Northern Pacific.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
First as Well as Last.

DuIuLN ITlDuNe.
lgnatius Donnelly was first and last in the
late session. The first bill introduced was by
him. The last one signed by the governor
and at the last moment allowed by the law
was one of his. He did most of the talking
OF the session, pandered to catch most atten-
ton. He introduced more big bills than any
body and got fewer of them through. He
scoded more than any other two members,
and was scoded at more than all the balance
of the house. He began with more adherents
and quit with fewer than any man in either
house. When he adjourned he was glad of
it and made everybody else glad.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
Simply an Outrage.
Ada Index.

The failure of the legislature to reappor-
ton the state into senatorial districts is simply
an outrage on those districts which are not
fairly represented. In fact, we doubt if
more fragrant injustice has ever been imposed
upon the people of any state in the Union.
Northern Minnesota has been repeatedly
insulted and wronged by gang of bulldozers
from Southern Minnesota who are temper
arily in power and who are doing everything
possible to retain that power. Their action
in refusing to fairly apportion the state
amounts to almost crime. All the use they
have for Northern Minnesota is to help pay
the taxes, and, apparently, there is no way
for US to get out of it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE

Has Larger Circulation than that
of Any Other Newspaper Printed
Northwest of Chicn & % land IL Is stead
ily and Rapidly Increasing. IA eep;ng
Pace with the Growth OF the Great
1ity of which The GLOBE is Admits
,eSly the Journaiistic Representa-
live.
Ills the Best Advertising Medium
yar Those WHO Desire 10 Reach All
Glasses of Newspaper Readers in the
Crent Northwest. and Especially m
Minnesota and Dak Ota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
Who Can Point Out.

The farmers were very largely in the
ascendancy IN the late legislature, having
ID out of AZ members in the senate and 81 out
of 103 in the house. They were headed by
their chosen leader, and flushed with victory
apparently had but to rush in, SEIZE and oc-
cupy the land. Now that the session is over
and the tunuit has subsidized, will some one
please point out the great things which have
been accomplished, or even a single enact
ment which will particularly inure to the
special benefit of this preponderating class of
our people?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
AIMS IN LIFE !

The CLIO BE will continue it's
new department, "Aims i'm
Life" and the general public
Is invited to contribute to it.
Brlef letters telling of ones
ambition and desire, and dis
cussing topics of interest to
the people, are invited. Let
everybody w rite to the GLOBE
at once, in a frank and homes
spirit, and much good will re-
SUIT. The department is open
tn all without charge.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14

ploy men any more to float the logs down the
streams.
stranger-How do they bring them down?
Hurley Citizen-Women manage them alto
gether.
strapger-What made the nmbermen make
the change?
Hurley Citizen-Because they have all been
converted to Bob Ingersolps theory.
stranger-And what has that got to do
with II?
Hurley Cltizen-They don't believe in he
rafter